What is recorded here

Five shallow stone heaps still lie beneath inches of peat in County Kerry, leftovers from fields the bog swallowed. One cairn leans against a large boulder like a shoulder braced for weather. People may have pulled stones from living soil, dumped them in lines, then watched the land take back the shape of their work.

This is one of five clearance cairns (KE035-073023-; KE035-073029-; KE035-073031-; KE035-073032-) described by Cuppage (1986, 26, 25 (w)) as follows; 'These 5 heaps of small stones, 3m x 2m x 0.35 to 0.5m high on average, are overlain by up to 0.3m of peat and may be field clearance cairns related to the pre-bog field system. One of the cairns has been heaped against a large boulder, a common practice even today. The locations of these cairns are shown on fig. 14 (ibid., 22-3)'.

Clearance cairn, likely post-medieval in date. These cairns represent agricultural activity rather than funerary or ritual use, signifying land clearance for farming.

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